Is First’s decision to compete with Arriva in Leicester revenge for the Chester war?

TO browse the news pages of recent editions of Transit, the reader could be forgiven for thinking that we are back in the days immediately post deregulation.

Bus wars have seemingly broken out around the country and not between small independents fighting their corner against one of the ‘Big Five’, but between the listed transport groups themselves.

In the South West, Stagecoach and First are slugging it out in Torquay and North Devon. In Chester First is now on a war footing...